Improvement in buttons



No. 44,759. PATENTEB 001*. 18,1864.

B. B. WHALEY. BUTTON;

1-11: mamas PETERS 0a.. WASHINGTDN, n. c.

UNITED ST TES PATENT OFFICE.

' v..\ asn'r'r n. WHALEY, on BROOKLYN, E. 1).,nnw YORK.

IMPROVEMENT IN BUTTON-S.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 44,759. dated October 1R, 1861.

To-alt whom it may concern.-

Beit known that 1, BARNETT B. Winner, of Brooklyn, E. 1)., in the county of Kings 'and State ot' New York, havcinvented acertain new and useful Improvement in Buttons as Attached to (-larinents; and 1 dohercby declare the following to be a full, clear, and can ct description thereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to the letters .of reference marked thereon, in which- Figure 1 represents a piece of cloth with the piece of metal which holds the button attached'thereto. Fig. 2 is a side View of button, showing the shank. Fig. 3 is an oblique view of button, showing the form of the shank more clearly. l i g. 4 is a vertical section showing the button attached: to the cloth; Fig. 5 is an oblique yiew of the cloth with the button attached, the button being turned to one side to show the distinctly. v i

My invention and improvement relate to attaching'a metallic shank to the button in place of the ordinary eye, and a metallic disk to the garment, so that the button may be re moved and another substituted in its place whenever required.

Among the advantages gained by my invention are the following: Military men,

sailors, police'memand others who. wear dis-- tinctive. buttons, if they wish to appear without their professional insignia, can readily remove their symbolic buttons and substitute a plain set. it a button becomes broken or disfigured, it can be removed and another substituted in its-place. The buttonfastening covering a larger portion of the cloth or garment than when the button is attached in the ordinary manner, the strain upon the cloth is distributed, and is consequently less liable to injure the garment and the button isless liable to break away from its fastenings and to come oil.

n represents a metallic diskor plate, whic is sewed or otherwise fastened to the garment b. .There are six or more holes, 0., drilled through it,, by means of. which it is sewed or fastened to" the garment, thus distributing the strain more widely than when connection of the parts more the button is attached in the ordinary way. The central part of said disk or plate is stamped up, forming a conical elevation on the upper side of the disk or plate and a cor responding depression on the under side. Through the center of the disk or plate, and consequently through the center of the beforementioned conical elevation, there is drilled a circular hole, 1?, with a slit or channel, 0,-

running from said circular hole to the circumference of the disk or plate a, the width of said channel being'less than the diameter of said central hole. w

-f is tlie but-ton. g is the shank, which is attached to the lower part. of the button in the same manner as the ordinary metallic eye. The lower part or. end of the shank is formed into a head, thesize of which shall correspond to the size of thewdepressitn stampedinto the under part of the diskor plate a. The bodyof the shank immediately above said head is cylindrical, the diameter of said cylindercorresponding to the diameter of the before-mentioned circular hole d,drilled'throngh the central part of the metallic disk or plate a. The upper part of the shank immediately below the butttn fis flattened by filing or stamping until the thickness "of the flattened part shall corzespond to the width of the channel 0 in thedisk or plate a. y

\Vheu i t is desircd to attach a button to a garment, the metallic disk or plate a is first sewed or fastened to the garment as represented in Figs. 1 and 5,011 the disk-may be sewed beneath the first thicknessof cloth and a small opening. or button-hole cut through the cloth'for the passage'ot' the shank. Then the shank of the button is pressed down against the cloth near the edge of the disk or plate. aand close to the channel 6 until the flattened part of the shank enters the channel, along which it is slipped until it reaches the central partof the disk (1,

whenthe elasticity of the cloth forces it; up, and the head of the shank fits into the depression in the central part. of the disk or. plate; or a small spriu'g may be attached to the lower part of the disk to keep the head 1 of the shank from working out of place.

The disk should always be attachod to the garment in such a way that the channel a mayopen upward and the button 1' he slipped downward to its place.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters nt'eut, is

The combination and arrangment of the shank g and the disk or plate a with the bu tonf, and the cloth or garment b, substantiaii as nnd for the purpose set forth.

BARNETT B. WHALEY;

CHAS. E. 110W, J Axles '1. GRAHAM. 

